Radiation therapy treatment planning and optimization requires accurate, precise,
and fast computation of absorbed dose to all critical and target volumes in a patient. A
new method for speeding up the computational costs of Monte Carlo dose calculations is
described that employs a hybrid classical-quantum computing architecture.
Representative results are...
The leading cause of death 20 years after treatment for children surviving a cancer of the central nervous system was from a subsequent malignant neoplasm (SMN) (1). Although it was been shown that proton therapy considerably reduces the risk of a fatal SMN in children receiving craniospinal irradiation compared to...
Purpose: To compare target dose conformality and OAR sparing afforded by VMAT and HT for pancreatic cancer.
Materials and Methods: A retrospective planning study was performed in 18 patients. Total treatment dose was 59.4Gy. OAR and PTV mean doses, conformity indices, isodose volumes, and integral doses were compared. The relationship...